Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014

Temporary registration — recreational craft under 24 metres in load line length

23. (1) Where a recreational craft under 24 metres in load line length outside the State becomes the property of a qualified person ordinarily resident in the State, the Minister may grant a certificate of registry of temporary registration in respect of the craft for the purposes of navigating that ship to a port in the State.

(2) Prior to the grant of temporary registration under this section, the owner of the ship shall provide a declaration of measurement particulars of the ship to the Minister and shall comply with the requirements of the Merchant Shipping Acts and the Sea Pollution Acts relating to it.

(3) Following the grant of temporary registration under this section, the Minister shall issue a certificate of registry to be known as a certificate of registry of temporary registration to the owner of the ship.

(4) The certificate of registry of temporary registration granted under subsection (1) shall expire at a time specified on the certificate which may not exceed a period of 6 months from the date of issue.

(5) The Minister may make regulations prescribing details in relation to temporary registration requirements including but not limited to, documentation, declarations and other supporting information.

(6) A certificate of registry of temporary registration shall be in an approved form.

(7) A certificate of registry of temporary registration shall not be renewed.

(8) Subject to section 28 (4), a certificate of registry of temporary registration granted under this section shall at all times be carried on board the ship to which it relates.

(9) Where there is a failure to comply with subsection (8), the owner or master of the ship concerned commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a class C fine.